Charles Alphonse Brot (12 April 1807 – 3 January 1895) was a prolific French author and playwright.
Life
Charles Alphonse Brot was born on 12 April 1807 in Paris. He studied at the Lycée Bonaparte (now the
Lycée Condorcet
The Lycée Condorcet () is a school founded in 1803 in Paris, France, located at 8, rue du Havre, in the city's 9th arrondissement. It is one of the four oldest high schools in Paris and also one of the most prestigious. Since its inception, var ...
), in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Brot became a member of the romantic literary group ''les Jeunes-France'' (Young France), sometimes called ''les
Bouzingos'', which also included
Théophile Gautier
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier ( , ; 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.
While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and rema ...
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Gérard de Nerval
Gérard de Nerval (; 22 May 1808 – 26 January 1855) was the pen name of the French writer, poet, and translator Gérard Labrunie, a major figure of French romanticism, best known for his novellas and poems, especially the collection '' Les ...
, Jules Vabre,
Petrus Borel
Joseph-Pierre Borel d'Hauterive, known as Petrus Borel (26 June 1809 – 14 July 1859), was a French writer of the Romantic movement.
Born at Lyon, the twelfth of fourteen children of an ironmonger, he studied architecture in Paris but abandoned ...
, Philothée O’Neddy,
Augustus McKeat,
Aloysius Bertrand
Louis Jacques Napoléon Bertrand, better known by his pen name Aloysius Bertrand (20 April 1807 — 29 April 1841), was a French Romantic poet, playwright and journalist. He is famous for having introduced prose poetry in French literature,Stua ...
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Joseph Bouchardy
Joseph Bouchardy (1810–1870) was an author, playwright, engraver, and member of the Jeune France/ Bouzingo and Cénacle movements. The enormous popularity of his plays earned him the nickname "The King of the Boulevard." In 1868 he was given the ...
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Louis Boulanger
Louis Candide Boulanger (1806 – 1867) was a French Romantic painter, pastellist, lithographer and a poet, known for his religious and allegorical subjects, portraits, genre scenes.
Life
Boulanger was born in Piedmont where his father, Fran ...
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Achille Devéria
Achille Jacques-Jean-Marie Devéria (6 February 180023 December 1857) was a French painter and lithographer known for his portraits of famous writers and artists. His younger brother was the Romantic painter Eugène Devéria, and two of his six ...
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Eugène Devéria
Eugène François Marie Joseph Devéria (22 April 1805, in Paris – 3 February 1865, in Pau) was a French Romantic history painter, portraitist and muralist.
Biography
He was one of five children born to François-Marie Devéria, a Bureau C ...
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Célestin Nanteuil and Jehan de Seigneur. He wrote many well-received dramas.
In 1836 a critic wrote of his work, "M. Alphonse Brot furiously loves women swimming in the ether. His heroines are always called Arièle, Stella; they are pure, they are heavenly, and the best eyes in the world would discover not the slightest blemish on their souls, or even on their white robes. ... His talent is a mixture of reveries and feelings that has difficulty capturing the colors of history..."
Brot and
Antony Béraud were co-directors from 1840 to 1842 of the ''
Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique
The Théâtre de l’Ambigu-Comique (, literally, Theatre of the Comic-Ambiguity), a former Parisian theatre, was founded in 1769 on the boulevard du Temple immediately adjacent to the Théâtre de Nicolet. It was rebuilt in 1770 and 1786, but in ...
'' on the Boulevard St-Martin, Paris. On 7 January 1847 Brot married Eugénie Girault-Duvivier. From 1848 to 1872 he worked with the Ministry of the Interior as head of the printing and book selling office. Brot was awarded the
Legion of Honour
The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...
on 15 August 1864.
He died on 3 January 1895 in Paris, and was buried in Montmartre cemetery. His body was moved to
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Père Lachaise Cemetery (french: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise ; formerly , "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery in Paris, France (). With more than 3.5 million visitors annually, it is the most visited necropolis in the world. Notable figure ...
in 1901.
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Poetry
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1807 births
1895 deaths
19th-century French poets
19th-century French novelists
19th-century French dramatists and playwrights